Soulcruzer

“Worry is otherwise known as ‘fantasized catastrophizing’ where we create an image of the future and…”

even with a map you can still get lost — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:19:34 +0000

“Worry is otherwise known as ‘fantasized catastrophizing’ where we create an image of the future and use it to frighten ourselves! Be aware that you are doing it, then stop doing it, otherwise the image will become a self fulfilling prophesy. Imagine only the brightest future, and so it will be. Besides there is nothing to worry about… unless you are under the illusion that your well-being and security are dependent on material things. If they are, then you will have many ways in which you can create worry. Possible loss, damage, separation, uncertainty are but a few. Look, you’re killing yourself with worry, all because of the misuse of your imagination. Don’t do it.”

- Innerspace (via bodymindandsoul) (via dysfunctionalhippie)

“When will you begin to live virtuously, Plato asked an old man who was telling him that he was…”

even with a map you can still get lost — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:53:50 +0000

“When will you begin to live virtuously, Plato asked an old man who was telling him that he was attending a series of lectures on virtue. One must not just speculate for ever; one must one day also think about actual practice. But today we think those who live as they teach are dreamers.”

- Immanuel Kant

“If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own…”

even with a map you can still get lost — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:27:25 +0000

“If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own judgements about it. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.”

- Marcus Aurelius

“Measure life in loan payments and time quickly runs out; measure life by infinite values and time…”

even with a map you can still get lost — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:16:50 +0000

“Measure life in loan payments and time quickly runs out; measure life by infinite values and time keeps out of the way.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an…”

even with a map you can still get lost — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:26:10 +0000

“In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of the speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical qualities, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.”

- Betrand Russell

time to ponder or ponder time

Clay Lowe — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:26:57 +0000

I’ve been working flat out over the last 3 months or so getting up at 0430 to be out the door by 0545 to catch the 0620 train to London (a journey that takes me about two hours), out the door at the place I am working by 1730 to catch the 1800 train back to Leamington Spa (another two hour journey to get home), workout, eat, answer emails, sleep, then start the process over again. My weekends have been just as busy – mountain walks, country walks, visiting the in-laws. This weekend, I made the conscious choice to simply chill out, stay in the castle keep, and enjoy my home. I needed the time to reflect. My mother is not doing very well at the moment and there is an ocean between us so I am only able to get updates from my sister and brother. Times like these, of course, force you to think about your own time – how you are spending it and with whom you are spending it, how much of it you have left, and what you want to do with it. Yeah, so, this weekend I am taking time out to relax and think about life for a while.

“We turn clay to make a vase; but it is in the spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of…”

even with a map you can still get lost — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:47:14 +0000

“We turn clay to make a vase; but it is in the spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vase depends. Just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.”

- Lao Tzu

“Do I dare disturb the universe?”

even with a map you can still get lost — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:28:45 +0000

“Do I dare disturb the universe?”

- T.S. Eliot - Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Relaxing on top of penygadir.

even with a map you can still get lost — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:50:38 +0000

Relaxing on top of penygadir.

“The clock is king.”

even with a map you can still get lost — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:54:42 +0000

“The clock is king.”

scratching my head

even with a map you can still get lost — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:24:25 +0000

I am trying to figure out how we, as individuals, benefit when a government cuts valuable programs that serve children, education, and the old and at the same time raises taxes. Short term pain? Long term gain? What is the long term gain and how will it make me and my family better off? If you cut 250, 000 jobs, where do those people go? What do they and their families do?

“Short term pain…” ha I think King said it best while shoveling shit in the movie Platoon: “You gotta be rich to think like that in the first place…”

I guess this will round out my British experience. This will be the first time I have lived under a conservative (with a splash of lib dem) government.

The contemporary commuting couple. (nice tans, must have just…

even with a map you can still get lost — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:26:25 +0000

The contemporary commuting couple.

(nice tans, must have just come back from holiday.)

priorities

even with a map you can still get lost — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:00:02 +0000

The new coalition government is proposing to cut child benefit, the child and working tax credit, statutory maternity pay, the winter fuel allowance, and concessionary bus fare, yet the new governments seems happy to continue having the taxpayers pay for NHS executives to keep their prestige Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Audi, and Lexus company cars at cost of millions of pounds to the taxpayer. What message am I suppose to take from this?

what’s the rush?

even with a map you can still get lost — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:11:48 +0000

He’s not a policeman. He’s not a fireman. He’s not an emergency medic. It’s 6:00am. There is no traffic. The light I’m waiting for turns green. He runs his red light. I have to break to keep from crashing into him. He put two lives in danger for the sake of 2 minute. I wonder if the 2 minutes he saved worth the risk. What will that 2 minutes buy him today? And will it be worth two lives?

Looks like ripped out testicles to me…

even with a map you can still get lost — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:52:35 +0000

Looks like ripped out testicles to me…